Ernanodontidae Temporal range: Paleocene
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Reconstruction of Ernanodon antelios | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Palaeanodonta |
Family: | †Ernanodontidae Ding, 1979[1] |
Type genus | |
†Ernanodon Ding, 1979
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Ernanodontidae ("sprouts of toothless animals") is an extinct family of myrmecophagous placental mammals within extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in Asia from the middle to late Paleocene.[2][3]
The phylogenetic relationships of family Ernanodontidae are shown in the following cladogram:[4][5][6]
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†Epoicotherium/Xenocranium clade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||